Postpartum Depression : Causes, Treatments, and Prevention

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a disease that has become well known in the past seven years. There has been a great deal of media coverage about this disorder in cases such as the Andrea Yates murder trial in Texas. Yates, a mother of five, murdered her children (ranging in ages from six months to seven years) for seemingly, no apparent reason. However, was this murder or just the severe effects of a woman suffering from …

…ession. Another idea would be to have more accessible meeting groups for new mothers where they may freely express their frustrations of this new career called motherhood. If systems such as the one described were in place for Andrea Yates, who knows what kind of difference could have been made. With early detection and preventative measures in place, we will surely be able to protect these new mothers and their children in their new lives.